GAO says Drug War figures can't be trusted


So why are we listening to them and giving them more money?

Here's one I bet you didn't hear about.

The 52-page report released this month by the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, questions the reliability of key U.S. government drug trafficking data. Official stats are so sketchy and unreliable as to be almost worthless, the report says.

"Data to assess whether operations ... contribute to ... disrupting the illicit drug market or the overall goal of reducing the rate of drug usage in the United States are problematic," the report found.

Little effort is being made to evaluate performance of the 50 to 60 agencies involved, in violation of a federal law that requires them to be accountable, the GAO added.

I just would like you to think about that. The Congressional agency tasked with evaluating the performance of other government agencies can't confirm the claims of the anti-drug agencies.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Mon - January 2, 2006 at 04:23 AM  Tag


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